NUREMBERG, Germany — (BUSINESS WIRE) — November 19, 2012 —
Bentley Systems and Siemens today announced a strategic collaboration to
advance the integration of digital product design and manufacturing
processes design with information modeling for facilities lifecycle
design. According to the Memorandum of Understanding the collaboration
will enable the two companies to deliver intelligent and sustainable
digital factory infrastructure. Initially the companies will focus on
the digital factory for automotive and discrete manufacturing.

The Siemens Division Industry Automation and Bentley Systems will
initially, based on their longstanding commitment to openness in
information technology, collaborate on common file formats and content,
integrated workflows for factory layout, and the convergence of process
and layout. This work is an extension of earlier collaborations between
the two organizations that resulted in each deploying technology
offerings developed by the other. In the longer term, the companies will
explore opportunities for jointly developed technology to expand
industry-centric solutions and further collaboration interoperability
between Siemens’ Teamcenter and Bentley’s ProjectWise software.

Teamcenter product lifecycle management software helps companies deliver
increasingly complex products while maximizing productivity and
streamlining global operations. It provides the right information for
people to make the right product decisions – from planning and
development through manufacturing and support. The ProjectWise system of
collaboration servers and services empowers work sharing, facilitating
the use of virtual talent, dynamic review for improved project quality,
and content reuse for extended value.

Dick Slansky, senior analyst, PLM research director, ARC Advisory Group,
said, “ARC Advisory Group has long advocated for a common, interoperable
environment for sharing and exchanging equipment design information and
facility design information. We believe this announcement of a strategic
collaboration between Siemens and Bentley Systems should go a long way
toward enabling the integration of digital equipment design and
manufacturing process information with the AEC and infrastructure
design/build information solution. Specifically, this collaboration will
enable Siemens’ design/build solutions such as Teamcenter, NX, and
Tecnomatix to openly interoperate with Bentley solutions such as
ProjectWise, MicroStation, and AssetWise. ARC will be following this
collaboration closely to gain a better understanding of the overall, and
potentially significant, benefits to all of the industrial sectors
affected.”

Siemens Industry Automation Division CEO Anton S. Huber said, “Together
we will drive the paradigm shift that will establish unified and fully
collaborative product and production lifecycles for our customers. This
will facilitate workflow efficiencies moving our users to the next level
of productivity. Today, it is more important than ever to make full use
of all optimization opportunities over the entire lifecycle of a machine
or plant. This starts with planning and engineering, and continues into
operation and maintenance right through to expansion and modernization.
Now, as we seek to extend this to include facilities lifecycles, we have
determined that Bentley Systems is the right partner to help us bring
this new value proposition to realization.”

Bentley Systems CEO Greg Bentley said, “We at Bentley have redefined
asset performance management to span OPEX and CAPEX and are bringing our
information mobility technologies to bear on the unification of the
project and asset lifecycles. With Siemens converging product and
manufacturing process lifecycles, the digital factory seems the ideal
inaugural target application for a combined and expanded unification
effort. Working smarter, together, Bentley and Siemens will empower our
shared users to speed the delivery and outfitting of manufacturing
facilities, accelerate the start of production, reduce design,
construction, and operating expenses, and improve the operational and
energy performance of their factories. We’ve also identified fruitful
future endeavors involving our AssetWise software for asset lifecycle
information management, including our new Ivara EXP asset performance
management software that helps owner-operators obtain the best
performance, reliability, and safety from their assets.”

The Siemens Industry Automation Division(Nuremberg, Germany)
supports the entire value chain of its industrial customers – from
product design to production and services – with an unmatched
combination of automation technology, industrial control technology, and
industrial software. With its software solutions, the Division can
shorten the time-to-market of new products by up to 50 percent. Industry
Automation comprises five Business Units: Industrial Automation Systems,
Control Components and Systems Engineering, Sensors and Communications,
Siemens PLM Software, and Water Technologies. For more information,
visit
www.siemens.com/industryautomation.

About Bentley Systems, Incorporated

Bentley Systems (Exton, Pennsylvania, USA) is the global leader
dedicated to providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals,
constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions
for sustaining infrastructure. Bentley Systems applies information
mobility to improve asset performance by leveraging information
modeling through integrated projects for intelligent
infrastructure. Its solutions encompass the MicroStation
platform for infrastructure design and modeling, the ProjectWise
platform for infrastructure project team collaboration and work sharing,
and the AssetWise platform for infrastructure asset operations –
all supporting a broad portfolio of interoperable applications and
complemented by worldwide professional services. Founded in 1984,
Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in 50 countries, more than $500
million in annual revenues, and since 2003 has invested more than $1
billion in research, development, and acquisitions. For more
information, visit
www.bentley.com .